Unit 3 Vocab

Question 1

The Gun Powder Empire

Answer 1

States in Southwest, Central, and South Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories.

Question 2

Gluten berg press

Answer 2

Increased literacy

Question 3

Ivan lV

Answer 3

• crowned tsar in 1547, expanded to Russia, took control of the khanates of Khazan, Astrakhan, and Siberia.

Question 4

Cossacks

Answer 4

Fierce peasant warriors

Question 5

Ming Dynasty

Answer 5

Overthrown China’s Yuan Dynasty 1271

Question 6

Manchu

Answer 6

Established the Qing Dynasty in 1644 till 911

Question 7

Emperor Qianlong

Answer 7

Qing ruler ( 1736-1796) poet knowledgeable in art and calligraphy

Question 8

The Rule of Tamerlane

Answer 8

The invasion of Central Asia and the Middle East by Tamerlane set the stage for the rise of turkic empires

Question 9

Gazi ideal

Answer 9

A model for warrior life that blended the cooperative of nomadic culture with the willingness to serve as a holy fighter for Islam

Question 10

Ottoman Empire

Answer 10

Largest and most enduring of the Great Islamic empires of this period

Question 11

Mehmed 2

Answer 11

Conquered he Byzantine Empire capital ( Constantinople ) then called it Istanbul in 1453

Question 12

Suliman 1

Answer 12

Ottoman reaches it peak, invested in strong Army, overran Hungary in 1526

Question 13

The Safavids

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established by Ismail Safavid, who declared Iran a Shi’ite state

Question 14

shah Abbas 1

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Called the Abbas the Great ruled from 1588 t0 1629 presided over thee Safavid Empire at it height

Question 15

Akbar

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Babur’s grandson achieved gran religious and political goals

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Mughal Empire

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Under Arbark was one of the richest and best governed states in the world

Question 17

Castes

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Are strict social groupings designated at birth

Question 18

English bill of rights

Answer 18

Assured individual civil liberties

Question 19

Absolutism in France

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French government became absolute directed by one source of power the king

Question 20

Intendants

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Royal officials

Question 21

Louis XIV

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The sun king ruled from 1643-1715 espoused a theory of divine right and was virtual dictator ( France

Question 22

Boyars

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Stood the top of the social pyramid.

Question 23

Peter the Great and the Romanov Dynasty

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took control of Russia in 1613 after a period of turmoil.

Question 24

Devshirme

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Ottoman staff thier military and government

Question 25

Janissaires

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Formed elite forces in the Ottoman Empire

Question 26

Daimyo

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Conflict between landholding aristocrats left Japan in disarray

Question 27

Period of Great Peace

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Tokugawa Leyasu ruled 1600 - 1616 ( Asia) declared shotgun and successors continued an era of

Question 28

Tokugawa shogunate

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Set about reorganizing the governance of Japan in order to centralize control hat was essentially a feudal system.

Question 29

Zamindars

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We’re in charge os specific duties such as taxation, construction, and water supply

Question 30

Peter and St. Petersburg

Answer 30

When Peter the Great seized lan on the Baltic Sea from Sweden the conquest gave Russia its own war water port on the Baltic St. Petersburg

Question 31

Asia the Great of Songhai

Answer 31

Came to power in 1493

Question 32

Calvinism

Answer 32

The French Theologian John Calvin broke with the Catholic Church around 1530

Question 33

King Henry Vlll 1509 - 1547

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England, asked the pope to get remarried and became head of the new Church of England or Angelica Church

Question 34

Thirty Years’ War

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The finial great religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Europe culminated in the Thirty Years’ War

Question 35

Sikhism

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New religion of Hinduism and many have influenced by the Islamic mysticism known as Sufism